Out of the Dust Review

Presented by Ms. Ratliff

Depression Dust Bowl About the Novel

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Row 1, Col 1

This was widely blamed for causing

The Great Depression.

What is the stock market crash?

1,2

The Dust Bowl consisted ofthese types of storms.

What are dust storms?

1,3

This is a style of poetry that has no rhyme nor meter.

What is free verse?

1,4

This is the state where the Kelby family lives.

What is Oklahoma?

2,1

This decade sufferedthe most during The Depression.

What are the 1930s?

2,2

These states, which arenamed after a U.S. region,

were the most affectedby the Dust Bowl.

What are the Plains states?

2,3

This is descriptive language that evokes one or more of the five senses to create a

mental image.

What is imagery?

2,4

The novel is written as if Billie Joe were writing

in this type of book.

What is a diary?

3,1

This U.S. President iswidely credited for helping

the economy during The Depression.

Who is Franklin Roosevelt?

3,2

This was the seven-year span of the Dust Bowl.

What is 1930-1936?

3,3

The principal character who is the leader of a cause orbrings about important

change is called this.

What is protagonist?

3,4

Aside from survival and family, these are two other

themes in the novel.

What are loss and forgiveness?

4,1

This was a series of programs thatFDR proposed to bring economicrelief and recovery for America.

What is The New Deal?

4,2

Millions of those affected by The Dust Bowl migrated here.

What is The West?

4,3

This is a story’s insight about life.

What is theme?

4,4

Because of things like her name, Billie Joe is raised

to like act this.

What is a tomboy?

5,1

This was a government programdesigned to aid the elderly and disabled with financial support.

What is social security?

5,2

Aside from drought, this was another cause of

The Dust Bowl.

What is soil erosion?

5,3

This is an object or action that means

something more than its literal meaning.

What is symbol?

5,4

When Billie Joe writes about herlove of playing the piano,

the text is shaped like this object.

What are piano keys?